Greetings Red Hat Partners,

We are pleased to announce the availability of the Red Hat Hardware Certification Test Suite Release Candidate (hwcert-client-1.6.5-22) for testing purposes with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 pre-releases.

The Red Hat Hardware Certification test suite Release Candidate package (hwcert-client-1.6.5-22) is *not* an official release and should *not* be used for Red Hat Enterprise Linux certification submissions. The current Red Hat hardware test suites (hwcert-client-1.6.4-57 for RHEL6.x) should continue to be used for official certifications.


The Red Hat Hardware Certification Test Suite Release Candidate is available at the following location

ftp://partners.redhat.com/a166eabc5cf5df158922f9b06e5e7b21/hwcert/RHEL6/hwcert-client/1.6.5/


Highlights of the hwcert-client-1.6.5-22 test suite release candidate include:

* The USB3 test no longer immediately fails when a USB2 device is plugged in during testing.

* When pushing a result to the hardware catalog, the hwcert command will now ask the user to provide new a username/password combination if their login credentials were rejected by the catalog.

* The hwcert-client-1.6.5-22 package will default to sending results xml.gz files to the partner test hardware catalog when run on RHEL6.4 and earlier official releases and the RHEL6.5 pre-releases. The partner test hardware catalog is located at:

  https://partner-hwcert.redhat.com/


Reminder of the highlights of the hwcert-client-1.6.5-21 test suite beta include:

* hwcert-client-1.6.5-21 only supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x releases.

* New capability specific 10GigEthernet, 1GigEthernet, and 100MegEthernet tests are added and will plan by default on the appropriate devices. This will avoiding needing to rerun the network test because of incorrect connections.

* New capability specific WirelessG and WirelessN tests are added and will plan by default on the appropriate devices.

* The network test is called from with the WirelessX tests avoiding the need to separately run both the wlan and network tests on wireless adapters.

* The expresscard test now also uses dmidecode data to discover expresscard hardware.

* New capability specific USB2 and USB2 usb tests are added and will plan by default on the appropriate devices.

* The usb test will now record the port type that has been tested.

* The 'hwcert' command will attempt to submit previously run but not submitted test results to the hardware catalog before testing.

* The 'hwcert' command will print a summary (similar to 'v7 print' previously at the end of the current run before prompting to submit or save the results to the hardware catalog or hwcert-server.

* Results xml.gz files can be viewed, downloaded locally, and uploaded to the hardware catalog using the hwcert-server package web interface at:

  http://{hwcert-server-IP}/hwcert/

* The 'hwcert-backend submit' command can be used on the system under test to submit previously run packaged results xml.gz files to the hardware catalog.

* The 'hwcert-backend save' command can be used on the system under test to save previously run packaged results xml.gz files to a hwcert-server test server.


The hwcert-client-1.6.5-22 package has been tested against pre-releases of RHEL6.5 on the x86, x86_64, ppc64, and s390x architectures. If you encounter any problems, please file bugs against the 'Red Hat Hardware Certification Program' product in Red Hat Bugzilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com).


Changelog between hwcert-client-1.6.5-21 Beta and hwcert-client-1.6.5-22 RC:

1013769 - USB3 doesn't retry
1015196 - hwcert command should ask for login/password on login ...
1013129 - help output includes a "push" command

Reminder of the changelog between current hwcert-client-1.6.4-57 and hwcert-client-1.6.5-21 Beta:

1014792 - default catalog URL should be the partners' server for ...
1014441 - submit traceback on printing catalog error code
1014419 - traceback after successful hwcert-backend submit
1013787 - hwcert-backend submit traceback on submit
1013100 - lsusb not found in s390x hwcert
1013159 - hwcert-backend submit tracebacks
1013046 - hwcert command does not offer the option to save results ...
1012966 - hwcert-backend save error saving from files stored on ...
1012941 - hwcert server start/status has lmbench and httpd errors
1001282 - RHEL6.5 storage test failure: "could not find storage ...
1001308 - FEAT: expresscard test should use dmidecode data to plan
 998044 - FEAT: hwcert-server should provide a push result to ...
1001807 - FEAT: hwcert-client should indicate why it hasn't ...
 998064 - FEAT: hwcert command should print a summary at the end of ...
1006605 - FEAT: add a new USB3 and USB2 tests
 960470 - [FEAT] USB test need to list usb version related info for ...
1010414 - Hwcert Traceback when selecting n to submitting to test server
1006586 - FEAT: add a new type-specific tests for N and G
1006578 - FEAT: add a new 1GigEthernet test
1001303 - FEAT: hwcert-server should display and allow for download ...
 998037 - FEAT: hwcert-server should provide a push results to ...
 998059 - FEAT: hwcert command should prompt the user about pushing ...


Known issues:

1014092 - hwcert-backend submit fails when behind a proxy

We value your ongoing participation in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux development, testing, and certification efforts. Thank you for your continued partnership. If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact your Partner Manager or Technical Account Manager.

Regards,

The Red Hat Hardware Certification Team

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